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Choreographer Lorin Latarro replaces Chase Brock in 'Waitress,' 'Hughie' to close earlier than planned and a 'Fun Home' Mash Up in this week's Backstage Buzz.
Managing a career takes planning and foresight, but theater artists often find decisions are made by others. But Laura Benanti and Seth Rudetsky are really trying, via social media.
Baritone Theo Hoffman, a native New Yorker, to compete in the Met's National Council Auditions, one of opera's most prestigious vocal competitions, this Sunday.
In political circles in New York, Washington and elsewhere, seeing 'Hamilton,' the Broadway hit musical about one of the nation's earliest politicians, has become an essential barometer of p…
To succeed, the $25 million production by Cirque du Soleil Theatrical needs to weave the brand's highflying whimsy into the must-haves of musical theater: a clear story, plus song and dance …
Rejecting the luxury connotations of the art form, scrappy opera companies are cultivating new audiences with tickets as low as $10, oddball locations and aesthetically slick but low-budget …
The opera company enters the coming season with six new productions, a slimmed-down budget and looming questions about when its ailing maestro, James Levine, will step aside.
The musical fable 'Cabin in the Sky' made its Broadway debut with an African-American cast in 1940. The show returns to the stage this week to open the 2016 season of New York City Center's …
As a new block of 'Hamilton' tickets goes on sale to the public Tuesday, would-be audience members may find themselves shut out.
The Dutch conductor will succeed Alan Gilbert, who has held the position since 2009.
The coming season at Carnegie Hall will span centuries and continents, from a citywide festival celebrating Venetian music and culture to a residency by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American c…
The television broadcast of 'Grease: Live' will include aspects of immersive theater, with members of the audience stationed throughout the set.
Some 5,000 theater lovers from around the world gathered for the first-ever BroadwayCon, a three-day fan-fest for those who want to belt out show tunes and rub shoulders with the stars.
Reaction to the hit musical's return was mixed on social media and in theater circles. 'Cats' ran for 18 years, closed in 2000 and carries a distinct whiff of the 1980s.
A song cycle that limits its vocabulary to the 481 words Shakespeare gave to Ophelia.
As performers try to line up gigs at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' annual conference, industry professionals say audiences are ready to go beyond traditional dance and theat…
It's like having a peephole into an improv workshop brimming with Broadway insiders. No audience was present inside the apartment building of theater owner Jordan Roth. Instead, viewers were…
The group, which has been home to dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Misty Copeland, has tapped Kara Medoff Barnett, an executive from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
One day after more than 50,000 entrants to the new digital-ticket lottery for the Broadway musical crashed its website, fans thronged the Richard Rodgers Theatre to try their chances at the …
The sniping over rival proposals to resurrect New York City Opera may be over, but the remaining plan, now awaiting confirmation in federal bankruptcy court, is still raising some eyebrows.
New York culture lovers whose appetite runs toward the newest, most cutting-edge work can start the new year at full tilt, with festivals and showcases that feature more than 1,500 boundary-…
After more than 50,000 unique entries for cut-rate tickets crashed the digital lottery website and too many entrants mistakenly received winning notices, 'Hamilton' officials decided to leav…
Broadway ended 2015 bolstered by its best New Year's week ever. But while the year's overall results are strong, they aren't igniting the confetti cannons set off by the record-setting 2014.
American Ballet Theatre principal Daniil Simkin brings to Chelsea's Joyce Theater a program he conceived called 'Intensio,' an evening of four works by contemporary choreographers.
The century-old vaudeville venue and movie house, which became a shrine to African-American history was purchased by a developer who has applied for a demolition permit.
